Muscatine

We love it when you can't spell "incoherent".

Just sort out one simple thing you believe here.   Does any water from Lake Superior get into the Mississippi?

"Does any water from Lake Superior get into the Mississippi?" All this time you have been telling us how knowledgeable you are and now you are throwing out this question?

The answer is - only the incoherant water.

 

"Your problem here is that water from Lake Michigan flows into Huron.   Not the other way around as some dummys might think."

"August 9th, 03:03 PM"

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Gonna have some fun with this one!

Don't want this one to get away....."some dummys". She has just called the US NOAA, some dummys! Brilliant!......Let me embarrass her again with these excerpts from a NOAA report (Yes; I set her up knowing this is the science involved):

 

Great Lakes Environmental Research Labratory = glerl

NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

.GOV = Government

glerl.noaa.gov

 

"The nature of water currents flowing through the Straits

of Mackinac has not been well reported."

 

"The purpose of this article

is to set some of the myths to rest and to explain the

origins and strengths of the currents that are observed."

 

"We see the effects of the pressure

difference due to unequal thermocline depths; the deep

water (below the thermocline) flows from Lake Huron

to Lake Michigan. The volume of this flow is massive,

and it has important implications to the biological and

chemical characteristics of both lakes. Multiplying the

average current speed of the water being input from

Lake Huron to Lake Michigan by the cross section area

of the Straits that lies below the depth of thermocline

gives the volume of the inflow. In quantity, it equals

very nearly one-half of the average discharge of the St.

Clair River. " (Tell us what that average is, miss F-ing know-it-all.)

 

 

"The major outflow from Lake Michigan is through the Straits. (Duh! We all know that.)

 

Given the avenge discharge through this passage and

 

other small diversions of Lake Michigan water, the

 

emptying (residence) time is very close to 100 years.

 

Of course this frequently quoted estimate **does not

 

take into account** the effects of the flows we have

 

observed during summer stratification. To make use

 

of the measured flows, we note that the flow rate of

 

Lake Huron-originating water that is **input into Lake

 

Michigan** amounts to nearly **twice** the average discharge

 

through the Straits."

 

(MMMHHHHhhhh? Twice the input into L Michigan than out-put to L. Huron. Why hell....this makes mallcontent's statement above a bold-face lie; and an insult to NOAA scientists. Hell; and here I thought she was an F-ing know-it-all!)

 

I wonder if she will apologize to the NOAA scientists she just called dummys? Yes; mallosi, I have the report. Yes; I can embarrass you some more by posting a link to it if you demand.

 

Summation: mallcontent previously posted that L. Superior drains into L. Huron via rivers, and then eastward...yada yada yada Stl Lawrence seaway, etc, etc, etc. Has nothing to do with the real science though! Her quote/insult is posted here.

 

The geographic area where Superior and the river drain into Huron is next to Macinac Straights. Macinac Straights is where NOAA scientists say the flow reverses during the right conditions at two times the flow opposite as she is quoted above!

 

Now; if L. Superior water contains nitrogen; and mallcontent says it flows into L. Huron and eastward; and we all know that confluence is next to the Macinac Straights (which it is);.....and the US NOAA reports that flows do in fact go from L. Huron into L. Michigan, at two times the opposite flow when conditions are right; then we have L. Superior nitrogen water in L. Michigan water, via L. Huron.

 

Then; we know that mallcontent has acknowledged that L. Michigan water flows thru the canal and river system in Illinois into the Mississippi, and then to the Gulf. Hence; yes! How can Lake Superior water NOT reach the Mississippi? Likewise; why is mallcontent not studying the effects of the Great Lakes nitrogen in the Gulf like she did Iowa's run-off?

 

So, mallcontent...you are a liar in your post quoted above, per NOAA, and you owe their scientists an apology for that; and for calling them "dummys". Of course, apologizing here for inferring anyone here is a dummys, is beneath you. We won't hold our breath!

 

 

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